Texas’s cities are becoming “woke.” How do we save the rest of the state? The progressive nightmare I described in my City Journal article, “Woke City,” got even worse as a result of the November 6, 2018 election. A blue tsunami swept through Travis County, by a 70% to 30% m…
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California-izing the University of Texas at Austin
Thanks to Instapundit for the shout-out (here). And also Legal Insurrection (here). I have written previously about the radical plan of University of Texas President Greg Fenves to turn UT-Austin into a burnt orange knock-off of his alma mater, UC Berkeley. I have exposed how, under Fenves’ adm…
The Campus Diversity Swarm
A slightly revised version of this essay appeared in City Journal on October 10, 2018. Thanks to Instapundit (here). Thanks to The College Fix (here). By the time a homeowner discovers a termite infestation, chances are that the destructive pests have already caused serious structural damage. So …
Stop the Insanity at UT
I decided to wage a social media campaign against political correctness at the University of Texas, and recently set up a Facebook page called “Stop the Insanity at UT.” In just a few weeks, the page has attracted over 1,000 followers, and has drawn the attention of Empower Texans…
The New Color Line at the University of Texas
An edited version of this appeared in Minding the Campus on September 20, 2018. Thanks to Instapundit for the attention (here and here). State-sponsored race discrimination is offensive and immoral. Our national ideals, set forth in the Declaration of Independence, flow from the self-evident trut…
Will the Third Court of Appeals Survive November?
Place 6 on the critically-important Third Court of Appeals is an open seat this November. Mike Toth, who combines the best qualities of Ollie North and Neil Gorsuch, is running against Gisela Triana, who combines the worst qualities of Rosemary Lehmberg and Sonia Sotomayor. I discuss the race her…
“Social Justice” Is Overrunning the University of Texas
“Social justice” is an amorphous concept, increasingly invoked as a harmless synonym for “fairness,” but to progressives it is code for a radical agenda. Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek exposed this agenda decades ago, in a volume of his trilogy Law, Legislat…
Cronyism 101 at the University of Texas
Thank you, Instapundit! And thank you, SE Texas Record! The Burnt Orange Mafia at the University of Texas–the inner circle of overpaid administrators, influence-wielding donors, supplicant vendors, and political hacks who approve UT’s inflated budget in exchange for preferential admis…
An Open Letter to the University of Texas Board of Regents
See also Minding the Campus. I’ve been writing about the PC hijinks at UT (led by President Greg Fenves) for some time, but the report today in Campus Reform sent me over the edge. UT literally forced a student to engage in Maoist ritual self-criticism (after watching a film about &…
Austin Gets Woke: The People’s Republic of Austin Chafes at Being Surrounded by Texas, But Ignores the Lessons of History
A slightly-modified version of this article appeared in City Journal on June 25, 2018 as “Woke City.” Featured in Real Clear Policy the next day. And “column du jour” at WND.com. It is perversely ironic that prosperous “red” states (such as Texas) face the risk of poli…